I have a show of my collage work - new work presumably - next spring at a gallery/cafe in Philadelphia and it’s been about six months since I cut paper. The books have kept me busy this year (not a bad thing but I miss the improvisation). I’ve wanted to meet Les since he interviewed me for CC, so I would love to know more when you know more. Thanks Cecil.
Hey Brian! Enjoy your trip. I love working vacations! I was just on one to Brooklyn making collage art. Your post was definitely engaging. I read the whole thing and I like your 'voice'. Good job. The drawings look great too and I like the book creating saga. It can be hard pulling all the parts together! I really liked thinking about the possibilities you have to think about converting bugs to human activity. We look at everything from such a humo-centric point of view!
Hey thanks Cecil -- I made a mental note a few weeks ago that if I was to do something like this again, I'd need to focus it at least partly around working. Like, an artist's workshop or a residency, or teaching at a school. Something with some focus and a schedule. I don't know that world, really, how those things work, though.
By the way Brian, I think Les Jones (of Contemporary Collage Magazine) and I are planning another collage safari for next year in the UK with a group studio workshop to invite a handful of other international collagists to join us. We're working out the details. Maybe you would be interested in something like that? It would be for a week.
I go on collage safaris. I pick a city that I can hunt and gather paper in, buy needed art supplies on location. I bring my camera and my laptop. Then I go around and find papers, set up a studio where ever, in my hotel room or air B&B or whatever and make collages for the morning over coffee then spent the afternoon (a gentleman is never seen before noon) poking around, going to museums and shops and flea markets, gather more material, take pictures. Now, with the touchonian.com substack page, post videos and write stuff and report from the road, then put all my collages in a zip lock bag and bring them home and mount them on watercolor paper. Send to galleries. I usually go for a week or two or up to a month. A month is a long time to be away from the studio.
Yes - I would be.
I have a show of my collage work - new work presumably - next spring at a gallery/cafe in Philadelphia and it’s been about six months since I cut paper. The books have kept me busy this year (not a bad thing but I miss the improvisation). I’ve wanted to meet Les since he interviewed me for CC, so I would love to know more when you know more. Thanks Cecil.
Hey Brian! Enjoy your trip. I love working vacations! I was just on one to Brooklyn making collage art. Your post was definitely engaging. I read the whole thing and I like your 'voice'. Good job. The drawings look great too and I like the book creating saga. It can be hard pulling all the parts together! I really liked thinking about the possibilities you have to think about converting bugs to human activity. We look at everything from such a humo-centric point of view!
Hey thanks Cecil -- I made a mental note a few weeks ago that if I was to do something like this again, I'd need to focus it at least partly around working. Like, an artist's workshop or a residency, or teaching at a school. Something with some focus and a schedule. I don't know that world, really, how those things work, though.
By the way Brian, I think Les Jones (of Contemporary Collage Magazine) and I are planning another collage safari for next year in the UK with a group studio workshop to invite a handful of other international collagists to join us. We're working out the details. Maybe you would be interested in something like that? It would be for a week.
I go on collage safaris. I pick a city that I can hunt and gather paper in, buy needed art supplies on location. I bring my camera and my laptop. Then I go around and find papers, set up a studio where ever, in my hotel room or air B&B or whatever and make collages for the morning over coffee then spent the afternoon (a gentleman is never seen before noon) poking around, going to museums and shops and flea markets, gather more material, take pictures. Now, with the touchonian.com substack page, post videos and write stuff and report from the road, then put all my collages in a zip lock bag and bring them home and mount them on watercolor paper. Send to galleries. I usually go for a week or two or up to a month. A month is a long time to be away from the studio.